Word: premium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firm has offered a unique policy to protect Western diplomatic and military officers against the prime hazard on assignment to Moscow: sudden expulsion, and the often considerable personal loss that it involves, from the cost of Russian lessons to the tab for the farewell party. For a $210 annual premium, a Western foreign service officer can get the $5,000 persona non grata coverage for two years, the average tour of duty. As the word of Dobbin's diplomatic coverage got around, personnel assigned to the other Iron Curtain capitals have also sent to Maidenhead for P.N.G. policies...
...seven U.S. spacemen took out $100,000 policies with the Aetna Life Insurance Co. of Hartford. Low-bidding Aetna was reluctant to disclose the cost per man, but indicated that it was somewhat more than a 35-year-old military jet pilot would pay (an annual $1,810 standard premium with a $375 surcharge for extra hazard), but still less than steeplejacks. Since the standard premium varies with age, Senior Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, gets the highest bill. The lowest? To Major L. Gordon Cooper, 36, pounding along the beach at Cape Canaveral as a warm...
...have the reserves to expand its activity in the bond market. Last year the bank raised nearly $100 million on two bond issues sold in the U.S. and Europe. Normally, the market for Latin American bonds is dyspeptic, but the two Inter-American Bank issues were oversubscribed at a premium...
This formation puts a premium on energy. The defenders must move quickly to avoid being overshifted by a quick-passing attack. The guards also have to drop back to defend against a pivot man, since the middle man in the back of the zone plays closer to the basket than the foul line...
...agent for Lloyd's of London's livestock insurance business. "This is a crap-shooting business," says Harding. "We're betting against the roll of the dice." So far, he and Tomson have called the dice pretty well. Since 1954, American Livestock's annual premium volume has nearly tripled, to $1,800,000, and the company has made a profit in all but two years...